Project Directory 19-20

4 weeks full-time over Summer break, August-September

'Wellbeing and Community' recruitment ad

Summary

Ensuring that the views and perspectives of non-civil engineering students are incorporated at all levels of the design, delivery and assessment in the newly created IExplore module 'Earthquake Engineering'.  This will include review of module content and alignment with undergraduate expectations and needs, co-scripting multimedia material for the module and co-production of teaching materials. 

Project lead

Christian Malaga-Chuquitaype, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

2 students ideally from the first and last years of study, preferably from Faculty of Medicine or Faculty of Life Sciences

Part-time over Summer term (19-20), then 4 weeks full-time during Summer break, then part-time over Autumn term (20-21). 

Please note updated recruitment deadline and details. 

'Earthquake Engineering' recruitment ad

Summary

Assessing the impact of curriculum review on Year 1 undergraduate Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project type:

Ad-hoc (Curriculum development)

Project lead:

Dr Roel Schipper - Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Further details/experience required

UG Year 2 or 3 Civil Engineering student, 1 student in total.

Summary

Reviewing (alongside the staff partner) the professional skills teaching within the Computing department, as well as shaping future teaching via development of surveys, analysing data and developing the ongoing approach. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Dr Thomas Lancaster, Senior Teaching Fellow, Computing

Further Details/Experience Required

1 undergraduate student from the Engineering faculty

Summary

Co-creating two computational models of pedestrian motion.  The students will work with the Imperial Visualisations team to produce the functional code that enables the models to run, and visualisation code that allows users to interact with the visualisations created through an open access online platform. 

Project lead

Georgia Bateman, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

2 students, ideally undergraduates who have already completed their 2nd or 3rd year of studies.  Any department student is applicable provided they have programming experience.  Ideally students from the Physics and Maths departments, or Faculty of Engineering students with experience in the Java or Python programming languages. 

8 weeks during Summer break, full-time. 

Please note change of deadline date: 'Visualising crowds' recruitment ad

Summary

This project will co-develop module content for the new 'Space Mining' IExplore module, with students from diverse backgrounds in order to be multi-disciplinary; this will involve refining the curriculum and source-approprite learning resources.  Each student will address one of three areas of the module: legal, technical or economic aspects. 

Project lead

Kathryn Hadler, Earth Science and Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

3 students undergraduates ideally all from different departments in year 3 or 4 of their studies. 

4-6 weeks of full-time work over the Summer break. 

Please note deadline extension:  

'Space Mining' recruitment ad

Summary

Online learning and the use of digital technology is a key part of Imperial’s Learning and Teaching Strategy. Over the course of this project, students andstaff will work together to create modern applications with smooth and seamless user interfaces, supporting the everyday activities of learning andteaching within the College - for example the workflow of submitting, assessing and returning coursework, managing learning resources for each module(notes, lecture recordings, exercises, student forums, peer assessment, in-class quizzes, etc), communication between students and staff, online labs,innovative assessment methods etc. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Robert Chatley, Deputy Director UG Studies, Computing

Further Details/Experience Required

3 Computing students (preferably 1st or 2nd year undergraduates)  - good software engineering skills are required.

10 weeks full-time during Summer holidays. 

Next Generation Online Tool recruitment ad‌

Summary

Further development of the learning platform introduced last year for the ERO95009 Structural Mechanics and Dynamics modules.  This will involve numerical simulations and expanding on the existing materials. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Professor Silvestre Pinho, Department of Aeronautics

Further Details/Experience Required

3 2nd year Undergraduate students, for 10 weeks over the Summer holidays. 

Summary

Reviewing lecture content to locate key points where digital geological models would enhance learning, listing the key specifications.  The second phase will be the implementation of the digital geological models after becoming proficient with the the numerical simulation software package. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Dr Cedric John, Reader in Carbonate Systems and Carbonate Reservoirs, Earth Science and Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

2 students, one must be within their 2nd or 3rd year. 

4-6 weeks of part-time engagement during term-time, followed by 6-8 weeks of full-time engagement during Summer holidays. 

Summary

Developing digital tools for enhancing the learning experience of Aeronautics students; involving scripts and apps in order to promote active learning and a more student-centred curriculum. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Maria Ribert Vicent, Teaching Fellow, Aeronautics

Further Details/Experience Required

3 students from the Aeronautics Department, preferably having completed their 2nd or 3rd year of study

6 weeks full-time over the Summer holiday

Summary

Working with teaching staff to audits and interview Undergraduate peers for insight in to the where Python programming could be best utilised in each module, before generating a Python notebook across each module in the undergraduate curriulum.  Strong computational skills will be a requirement. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Matthew Piggott, Professor of Computational Geoscience and Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

3 Engineering students in total; a Year 1 student focusing on year 1 modules just completed, a Year 2 student focusing on year 2 modules just completed, and a Year 3 student focusing on Year 3 modules just completed. 

6-8 weeks of engagement over the Summer holiday. 

Summary

This project involves the co-creation of a new module on designing interventions for behavioural change. The learning in the module will be broad and can be applied to the design of products, services, experiences, events, policies and organisational change. In this sense, the learning should be applicable to interested students from any background. Students will first learn the information about the content and then help plan interactive workshops through which the learning will take place. Together, three to four workshops will be planed for delivery in Autumn 2020.

Project lead

Weston Baxter, Dyson School of Design Engineering

Further Details/Experience Required

Students from Design Engineering as well as those from other departments should apply. Generally speaking, we expect UG students to be ideal for this role though taught PG students may also apply.

The work will be 6 weeks full time starting in the summer. Exact times will be agreed with the student shapers. The project will be arranged with schedules such that student partners can join remotely to collaboratively complete the work in the event that this is needed.

'Behaviour change model using workshop based learning' recruitment ad

Summary

The StudentShapers would develop critical reflective skills as a way of building authentic resilience, over the duration of the project. The 12 Studentshapers will reflect individually and together, identifying aspects of their research experience in the Imperial laboratories that have helped them develop resilience and finally codesign with us, teaching and learning activities to support these skills across the curriculum of MRes Biomedical Research.

Project type

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Dr Latha Ramakrishnan, Faculty of Medicine, Strategic Teaching Fellow.

Further Details/Experience Required

MRes students in Faculty of Medicine - 12 in total. The project will run for 7 months (Nov 2019 – May 2020). Each student will spend 18-20 hours over the entire period (spread as 2 or 3 hours per month and paid £45 per month for 7 months).

Authentic Resilience recruitment ad

Authentic Resilience information sheet for participants

Summary

Co-designing the IExplore 'Social Accountability in Action' module; this will involve curriculum development as well as associated digital learning approaches.  Student insight in to near-peering learning is at the heart of the module and student perspective is thus invaluable. 

Project lead

Bethan Golding, School of Public Health

Further Details/Experience Required

1 student, ideally either undergraduate Medical student or Faculty of Natural Sciences student from any year of study. 

Full-time over Summer break, 4-6 weeks subject to student availability. 

'Social Accountability' recruitment ad

Summary

Co-production and innovation around pedagogical themes and related courses that are run within the PCPH department.  Key areas of development within MEdIC include 1. Longitudinal Placements, 2. Coaching, and 3. Diversity and Inclusion. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Dr Ravi Parekh, School of Public Health

Further Details/Experience Required

3 MBBS students from any year. 

MEdIC recruitment - partnership description

Further information and application form

Summary

Reviewing the curriculum of the Global Health BSc course via a process of collaborative education design with current students. 

Project area

Partnership Pedagogies

Project lead

Mariam Sbaiti, Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Public Health

Further Details/Experience Required

2 students preferably currently undergoing the Global Health BSc.  The time commitment for the project is part-time during term-time (March-May) before full-time engagement between May-September. 

'Developing the Global Health BSc' recruitment ad

Summary

Student partners will co-create a non-credit bearing online short course as part of induction for students joining the Faculty of Medicine and PGT level. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Anna Maria Jones, Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine

Further Details/Experience Required

2 StudentShapers who are studying at Master's level within any Department in the Faculty of Medicine (or PhD student(s) providingthey have previously studied at Master’s level within this Faculty)

Developing online Learning recruitment ad

Developing online learning partnership description

Summary

The project will support the development of the "Personalised Medicine: Hype or Hope" module including selection and development of appropriate study materials (by the PhD student), planning, scripting, acting and creation of videos to be used as scenarios during face-to face sessions (by all 3 studentshapers) and also beta-testing of online platforms and/or pre-session study materials

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Latha Ramakrishnan, Faculty of Medicine

Further Details/Experience Required

• 1 PhD student at six hours per week for 32 weeks between Mid-March and Mid-December
• 2 Undergraduate students (1 in year 2 from FoNS, 1 from year 2/3 from FoE)  - working three hours per week during term-time between April-December 2020, plus two full-time weeks during summer (exact summer dates to be negotiated with student partner upon appointment) 

Please note updated recruitment ad

'Personalised medicine' recruitment ad

Summary

Involvement in the organisation and running of the ViRCoMED from beginning to end; curriculum and assessment in Refugee Health in particular.

Project type:

Curriculum Development

Project lead:

Dr Mariam Sbaiti - School of Public Health (m.sbaiti@imperial.ac.uk)

Further details/Experience required

Alumni of BSc Global Health programme still undergoing study at Imperial college, 2 students in total, 10 half days during Summer term-time and 2 weeks at full-time during Summer holidays. 

Virtual Roundtable recruitment ad

Summary

Enhancing support provision for students, acting as co-designers using focus group data to create key resources such as induction videos and student guides. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Prabha Parthasarathy, Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine

Further Details/Experience Required

• 2 prospective year 4 MBBS students for 4 weeks full time during vacation time
• 2 internal former year 4 MBBS students for 2 weeks during vacation and 2 weeks during term time
• 2 external intercalating former year 4 MBBS students for 2 weeks during vacation time.

'Enhancing Year 4 MBBS' recruitment ad

Summary

The project has three main areas:

1. To work with academic staff to review remote teaching proposals and specifically look at face-to-face contact hours and how to improve student engagement and interaction with staff.  Student partners will be engaged with research into best practice, testing options and take part in practice problems classes/office hours/review forum and other q&a opportunities. Studentshapers to work across the Department, sometimes in smaller groups.

2. Review peer tutorial provision for remote learning environment, identify physical resources and training required and test virtual WhiteBoards and other online software available.  Develop training materials and programme plan.

3. Develop remote community building and social activities - specifically thinking about how to create a virtual Maths Common Room (for casual student interaction over academics and work) and virtual social activities

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Inkeri Hibbins, Undergraduate Liaison Officer

Further Details/Experience Required

4 Undergraduate Mathematics students - Ideally two students about to enter MSci programme and two students entering either year 2 or 3.

6 weeks full-time work over the Summer break. 

Summary

The project will work through each of the sub-areas of the 'Origins' course, discussing the interests and existing knowledge that the diverse student shapers have in these areas, and examining what they would want to achieve through further study of these areas. In collaboration with the project leader, this will then lead to breaking down each area (eg. Origin of Life) into a small number of separate sub-topics (eg. The Requirements for Life, The History of Life on Earth) that will be used as research topics during the course.  This will also include quiz development appropriate to non-domain experts and software testing for the online materials. 

Project lead

David Clements, Physics

Further Details/Experience Required

4 students, ideally second years, from a variety of departments, ideally including one from physics, one from life sciences, one from earth sciences, plus one from none of the above. 

9 weeks full-time over the summer break. 

'Developing Origins' recruitment ad

Summary

Following our partnership with 3 student shapers in Summer 2019, we successfully rolled out the Chemical Kitchen (CK) project in the Department of Chemistry (Chemical Kitchen uses culinary practice as a non-threatening parallel to the working environment of professionals of science andmedicine).

We now seek to develop a Chemical Kitchen Toolkit that can be deployed more widely across Imperial College London, focussing on skills training relevant across a wide range of disciplines.  This will involve co-developing learning activities, focus groups and reflection sessions. 

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Luke Delmas, Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry

Further Details/Experience Required

3 Students, one each from Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences (preference for higher years of study). 

Full-time over summer vacation from 1st July - 11th August.

Summary

Collaborating with Undergraduate peers and staff members in the redesigning of the Physics Teaching Laboratory space.  This will include illiciting a consensus of opinion from peers as well as seeing this through to the integration into design plans.  Acting as a partnership bridge between the department, and the broader department student community. 

Project type

Space Design

Project lead

Dr Simon Bland, Department of Physics

Further Details/Experience Required

2 Undergraduate Physics Department students, from year 2 or 3. 

Summary

In response to a curriculum review of the Department of Life Sciences UG degrees, both BSc degrees are being modified. 

In Year 2 across the two-degree streams there are three-strands to the redesign:

1. Developing 3 new traditional lecture-based modules which have a large exam assessment component: Molecular Microbiology; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; Essentials of Ecology
2. Converting 4 current lecture-based modules to summer course-work only modules: Vertebrate Form and Evolution; Applied Molecular Biochemistry; Challenges in Cell Biology; and Topics in Biotechnology
3. Developing 3 new summer course-work only modules: Computational Omics, Molecular Skills, and Ecosystems Field Course.

Current Year 2 students are ideally placed to help develop the curriculum for the next cohort of second year students.  Student partners will be involved in co-creating new teaching activities and genuine assessments that link to module intended learning outcomes. The co-created teaching activities will range from producing compendia and quizzes from lecture content to computer and laboratory practical work and fieldwork.

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project lead

Magda Charalambous, Principal Teaching Fellow

Further Details/Experience Required

Six life sciences undergraduate students, ideally currently undergoing Year 2.  Six weeks full-time during Summer break. 

'Radically redesigning' recruitment ad

• Consultation and research of suppliers
• Scoping, identifying and understanding ‘good’ design features in other parts of the college and possibly at other institutions
• Exploration and understanding of constraints to be applied to the design (e.g., considerations about circulation routes, disabled access, durability, etc)
• Preparation of provisional student led designs
• Consultation on provisional designs
• Development of project phasing/prioritisation plan
• UG and PG students to keep a diary/journal of approaches and findings, including design drawings, photos of space etc, to demonstrate both process and outcome of student centred design to maintain the ‘partnership bridge’ to the broader student community
• There may be scope and value to continuing some activities in early autumn term when there is greater availability of other students as well as some promotional activities of the new space to students.

Project area

Space Design

Project lead

Yasmin Andrew, Student Liason Officer in Dept of Physics

Further Details/Experience Required

3 student in total, 2 Undergraduate and 1 Postgraduate, for five weeks full time over Summer break for the first phase of the project. 

Students already appointed. 

Summary

A survey-based project where the staff-student partners design an interactive online questionnaire to collect student views and responses to different types of learning words with the aim of refining our use of learning words to better engage with future students. 

Project area

I-Explore

Project lead

Daisy Pataki, Teaching Fellow in Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

Further Details/Experience Required

Three undergraduate students.

Learning Lexicon recruitment ad

Learning Lexicon Partner description

Summary

A partnership autoethnographic study capturing individual experiences of our first year Change Makers modules, with contributions from staff, co-learners and student partners diarying and sharing their experiences of the same module at the same time. 

Project type

Educational Research

Project lead

Elizabeth Hauke, Field Leader in Change Makers of Imperial Horizons

Further Details/Experience Required

16 students in total,  8 undergraduates and 8 postgraduates. 

This is open to first year undergraduate students from any department who are enrolled on any of the three Global Challenges (Analysing Global Progress/Collecting and Understanding Data/Innovating for Change) Change Maker modules in the autumn term 2019. It is also open to research postgraduate students who are appointed to the module as Co-Learners. We don’t normally recruit Co-Learners until the beginning of October, but anyone that is interested in the project will also be considered for one of the Co-Learner roles before then.

Dear Diary recruitment ad

Dear Diary Partnership description

Summary

Student partners engaging with students enrolled on Change Makers 20 week modules during the 2019-20 academic year.  Data collection and analysis as well as preparation for a final seminar. 

Project type

Educational research

Project lead

Cleo Bowen, Change Makers Administrator within Imperial Horizons

Further Details/Experience Required

6 students in total, undergraduates from any department, who have taken or are taking for the first time this year any Imperial Horizons module. 

Great Expectations recruitment ad

Great Expectations Partner description

Summary

Exploring motivating factors, collecting and analysing research via focus groups and questionnaires.

Project type:

Educational Research (part-time for one year)

Project lead:

Dr Emma Keeling - Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (emma.keeling@imperial.ac.uk)

Further details/Experience required

Years 2-5 of MBBS students eligible, 1 student in total, 12 months in length at approx. half a day a week. 

Keeling International Medical Education recruitment ad

Summary

Contributing to the Design Management team behind STEMM Module, to help oversee and support the design of the I-Explore STEMM Modules (a programme comprising of a diverse range of modules designed to provide an opportunity for all undergraduate students in College to broaden their perspective: further info)

Project type

I-Explore

Project lead

Caroline Clewley,  I-Explore STEMM Module Stream lead

Further Details/Experience Required

Two students who already have experienced as wide a variety of different learning and teaching methods as possible, so having taken courses outside of their department (such as Imperial Horizons/ BPES) is a plus. For the same reason, 3rd-year students would be preferred (as often teaching methods change between second and third year).  Across any Department or Faculty. 

Designing IExplore STEMM Module recruitment ad

Summary

A research project investigating student experiences of learning at university; using digital storytelling methodology to collect students' individual experiences. 

Project type

Educational research

Project lead

Dr Monica Pazio, Teaching Fellow in the Educational Development Unit

Further Details/Experience Required

6 students in total, year 2, 3 and 4 students across all departments. 

Student in a Digital Age Recruitment ad

Summary

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are strong technologies to enforce experiential and explorative 3D learning in the STEM curricula. Literature is becoming available to demonstrate the value of VR and AR in higher education (Luursema, Vorstenbosch et al. 2017, Stepan, Zeiger et al. 2017, Ekstrand, Jamal et al. 2018, Hackett and Proctor 2018, Maresky, Oikonomou et al. 2018).Now that education at Imperial is multi mode, a substantial part of the education is moving online. These immersive technologies like virtual labs help students gain experience even when not at the Imperial Campus.

Project area

Project lead

Thomas Hurkxkens, Digital Learning Hub

Further Details/Experience Required

6 Undergraduate students - already recruited. 

The idea of this project is to research how students use the space, look at other similar spaces around College (particularly where these have recently been updated - for example Blackett Level 1) and in other work environments, and work with staff to come up with a proposal for an effective design which can be implemented within reasonable constraints.

Project area

Space Design

Project lead

Robert Chatley, Deputy Director UG Studies, Computing, and Inkeri Hibbins, Mathematics

Further Details/Experience Required

1 Computing student and 1 Mathematics student, ideally current second year undergraduates. 

5 weeks full time at the start of the summer vacation, plus 3-4 hours per week part-time during the last 3 weeks of the summer term

'Huxley Level 3 Foyer' recruitment ad

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Summary

Enhancing and developing the Imperial Award platform through designing a proof of concept prototype mobile app.  StudentShapers with relevant experience in developing mobile applications are crucial to the success of this project as they will provide both the technical ability and the student perspective required to develop the application. They will work with the staff partners to scope the development app (choosing content and functionality) and will lead on the development of the app itself.

Project area

Curriculum Development

Project leads

Paulina Kristiansson, Imperial Award Manager

Alejandro Luy, Belonging, Engagement & Community Res Officer/ Project lead

Further Details/Experience Required

Three students with mobile app development experience.  For ten weeks full-time over the Summer break. 

'Imperial Award Proof of concept' recruitment ad